Read article 'New centre to take control of J-PARC'
The High-Energy Accelerator Research Organization, KEK, and the Japan Atomic Energy Agency (JAEA) have established the J-PARC Center to take entire responsibility for operating the Japan Proton Accele...
Read article 'HESS helps lift the fog in intergalactic space'
Observations of very high-energy gamma-rays from two distant active galaxies reveal that the universe is more transparent to this radiation than previously thought. This limited absorption of gamma-ra...
Read article 'D0 provides precise results on B0s oscillations'
The D0 collaboration at Fermilab has published the first direct two-sided bound on the oscillation frequency of the B0s, the meson comprising a strange quark (s) and a bottom antiquark (Bbar).
Read article 'KLOE completes a successful run at the DAFNE collider'
On 16 March, operation of the K Long Experiment (KLOE) detector ended after 23 months of continuous running at the DAFNE collider at Frascati.
Read article 'CMS tracker sees first cosmic muons'
The tracker for the CMS experiment at CERN passed an important milestone in March when the first cosmic-muon tracks were observed in one of the end caps.
Read article 'Sterile neutrinos unravel astrophysics'
Almost every current theoretical model of neutrino masses introduces sterile ("right-handed") fields, which mix with the ordinary ("left-handed") neutrinos.
Read article 'Canadian modules take up position at LHC'
As the many pieces of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) and its experiments come together at CERN, Canada's contributions to the project are moving into their final positions.
Read article 'First results for the VUV-FEL radiation source'
The first measuring period for external users at the vacuum ultraviolet free-electron laser (VUV-FEL), the new ultraviolet and X-ray radiation source at DESY, ended successfully on 27 February.
Read article 'New WMAP results give support to inflation'
NASA’s Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) collaboration has finally released new observations of cosmic microwave background (CMB) radiation with updated results on the nature and origi...
Read article 'ATLAS tracker takes major strides'
At the heart of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), silicon sensors will provide accurate detection of charged particles produced in the collisions.
